WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following statement on March 7, 2024: * * * U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement in response to the State of the Union address delivered by President Biden: "President Biden's attempt to sell us a rosy picture of the state of our union will not work because the American people are not fooled by the President's blame shifting on high prices, crime, or border security. We know that Pr  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: In advance of the State of the Union address, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today said President Biden needs to be forthcoming in admitting his role in a border crisis that exploded under his watch and the resulting surge in crimes committed by illegal immigrants allowed to stay in the United States. Hyde-Smith, a member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subco  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following commentary to the Wall Street Journal: * * * Why the U.S. Maritime Industry Lags China's Another day, another attack on the Jones Act. Colin Grabow and Scott Lincicome's "Protectionism Kills U.S. Merchant Shipping" (op-ed, Feb. 26) calls for the law's repeal. For hundreds of years, Congress has entrusted domestic maritime commerce to American companies, ships and mariners for a simple reason: It works. The law hel  more